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             The JFK and Lincoln Coincidences

 

                           Here are a few of the "interesting" relations between

                            JFK and Lincoln.  There may be more, but these are

                            the most dominant I could find.

 

 

 

                           

 

Both Lincoln and Kennedy were concerned with civil rights.

Lincoln was elected president in 1860;

Kennedy in 1960.

Both were killed on a Friday, and in the presence of their wives.

Both were shot from behind and in the head.

Their successors, both named Johnson,

were Southern Democrats and both were in the Senate.

Andrew Johnson was born in 1808;

Lyndon Johnson 1908.

John Wilkes Booth was born in 1839;

Lee Harvey Oswald in 1939.

Booth and Oswald were Southerners,

who favored unpopular ideas.

Both president's wives lost children

through death while in the white house.

Lincoln's secretary, whose name

was Kennedy, advised him not to go to the theatre.

Kennedy's secretary, whose name

was Lincoln, advised him not to go to Dallas.

John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and ran to a ware house

Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and ran to a theatre.

Both assassins were killed before being brought to trial.

Both Johnson's were opposed

for re-election by men whose names started with "G".

 

 

                                                                                                                       updated: 3/14/2002